Instructables has put together a list of suggestions for make-it-yourself gifts. I bet there’s going to be a lot of handmade gifts this year. Great! A wonderful silver lining to leaner times. I have a scarf that a friend knitted me for my last birthday. I was so touched that someone had taken that much […]
There are many Instructables about changing your oil, but only one starts like this: I learned to do oil changes in high school speech class. One of the boys worked in a garage. He gave a really great how-to demonstration/speech about changing oil. He gave another about rotating tires, but there isn’t anything complicated about […]
This Instructable details a simple little hack to get USB power out of a VGA port, to power external disc drives, DVD players, and the like. All you need is a male to male VGA gender changer and a female plug from any old USB extension cable. VGA to USB power! Best Of Instructables Our […]
How do you combine your love of video games and bicycling? Make an LED bike light form an old NES controller of course! I had an old broken NES controller lying around, and decided that it would make a cool case for an ultra bright LED bike flasher. It’s designed to be easy to slip […]
Sometimes lighting up the road ahead of you isn’t enough. Sometimes, you want to light up the entire neighborhood. If so, the Kilo-Lumen bike headlight is for you. I started biking to work this summer and needed a good headlight and taillight. I didn’t want to spend a lot, but I wanted extreme visibility. For […]
Eric J. Wilhelm, of Instructables, will be on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” and WCBS-AM 880 this coming Monday to talk about The Best of Instructables for a holiday gift-themed program. The airtime for “Weekend Edition Saturday” will vary by market. The WCBS-AM program will air on 11/24 at 10:20 am, 11:40 am, 12:20pm, 1:40 pm, […]
I suffer from a serious lack of fancy hats, but thanks to instructables user Rine, I can get my fine millinery supplies at the local grocery store and make a fancy hat from sponges.
